The Franchise Show - Netflix

Editor

Regular national TV finance commentator and consumer advocate Effie
Zahos has signed on as the Host of new business program, The Franchise
Show, which will air Australia-wide on The Seven Network later this
year. The weekly half-hour program will focus on the positives, the
pitfalls and the personalities of franchising, profiling those at the
forefront of Australia's booming small business sector. With more
franchise systems per capita in Australia than anywhere else in the
world, Zahos believes Australia has never been more ready to embrace The
Franchise Show.

Type: Reality

Languages: English

Status: Running

Runtime: 30 minutes

Premier: 2017-04-30

The Franchise Show - Law & Order (franchise) - Netflix

Law & Order is a franchise composed of a number of related American
television series created by Dick Wolf. They were originally broadcast
on NBC, and all of them deal with some aspect of the criminal justice
system. Together, the original series, its various spin-offs, the TV
film, and crossover episodes from other shows constitute over 1,000
hours of programming. Shared people and resources in a common fictional
setting are the connecting links between the shows, e.g., Hudson
University and the New York Ledger tabloid newspaper. Many supporting
characters, such as district attorneys, psychologists, and medical
examiners are also shared among the shows. Occasionally, crossovers of
main characters or shared storylines between two of the shows will
occur. A few major characters have also left the cast of one show within
the franchise only to eventually join another. The music, style, and
credits of the shows tend to be similar, with the voiceover in the
opening of every series performed by Steven Zirnkilton. The shows share
the iconic “dun, dun” sound effect of a jail cell locking, created,
along with the theme songs, by Mike Post. Past episodes of the American
series are in syndication with local over-the-air stations, along with
cable channels such as USA Network and Bravo (both owned by the
franchise's production company, NBCUniversal), TNT, WGN America, Ion
Television, and AMC Networks' SundanceTV and WeTV, showing episodes
sometimes up to six times a day. In October 2012, Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit show runner/executive producer Warren Leight said of the
future of the Law & Order franchise, “(Dick Wolf and I) sometimes talk
in general terms of where (the franchise) could go. I'm curious to see
if there's another iteration somewhere down the line,” he says. “We try
hard to maintain a certain level of quality which I think is why the
shows sustained in reruns so well. And I'd like to believe there's room
for another generation in some way.” In February 2015, NBC was purported
to have interest in bringing back the flagship Law & Order as a limited
series. As of February 2016, NBC has not publicly announced intentions
to revive the original series. As of May 23, 2018, 1,129 original
episodes of the Law & Order franchise have aired.